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Author: Stefano Russo

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Translator: M. Yazdani, A. Heydarian, D. Bianchi

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Year of publication: 2009

Number of pages: 240

ISBN: 8849216483

The book deals with the magnificent solutions that human ingenuity has been able to devise, adopting particular construction techniques, to be able to live in a vast territory, such as the Iranian plateau, where the desert environment is certainly not favorable to the development of human activity. . But it is precisely in these places and in these extreme conditions that the great civilizations were born and established themselves.
On the caravan routes, cities from "A Thousand and One Nights" have sprung up, such as Esfahan, Shiraz, Nain, Kashan and Yazd, equipped with bazaars, caravanserais, mosques and hammams, equipped with every comfort through the invention of the first iceboxes, the first water and wind mills, ventilated cisterns for good water maintenance, wind towers for natural cooling of buildings and special "refrigeration rooms".